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🏋️ La gent de Val Town diu que el seu node_modules pesa més de 850MB! #gitignore⁣ ⁣ La pregunta que es fan: "Are we installing dependencies freely, taking on technical debt left and right?". I les respostes que ofereixen:⁣ ⁣ 1️⃣ 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀 (𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁) - Actual understanding is the goal. If you don't read, you won't succeed.⁣ ⁣ 2️⃣ 𝗻𝗽𝗺 𝗹𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝗴𝗲-𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸.𝗷𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱 - What really fills up 𝘯𝘰𝘥𝘦_𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘴 is all of the stuff they bring along, and that stuff (transitive dependencies) is extremely important. And read 𝑝𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘢𝘨𝘦-𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬.𝘫𝘴𝘰𝘯 it's not that bad, and you'll learn something.⁣ ⁣ 3️⃣ 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘁𝘆 𝗻𝗶𝗳𝘁𝘆 - There are two distinct impacts of big NPM modules: their contribution to your distributed application, and how much room they take up in 𝘯𝘰𝘥𝘦_𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘴 while you're developing the application.⁣ ⁣ 4️⃣ W𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗡𝗣𝗠 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗲 - A decent history of maintainership, built-in TypeScript types, passing tests, good documentation.⁣ ⁣ 5️⃣ 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗿𝗶𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘂𝗽 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 - You should be using 𝘙𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘦. And you should be using 𝘒𝘯𝘪𝑝.⁣ ⁣ 6️⃣ 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀 - The NPM module ecosystem is made up of people. It's useful to know who those people are!⁣ ⁣ 7️⃣ 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 - That's the truth: we're all building on the shoulders of each other. But there's an art to finding the right shoulders to build on.⁣ ⁣ 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dqwCa5-w

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Past the panic and hype (commonly boosted by people employed by AI companies), the machine learning tools we have available now truly empower a paradigm shift in technology development which can’t have its impact ignored. Due to resistance and regulations though, the fact is that few areas will be dreadfully impacted by AI’s initial growth, that’ll be left for the robot revolution which will take some time to become stable/ubiquitous. And those two revolutions will pale in comparison to the quantum computing revolution - that one will truly be civilization-shattering. https://lnkd.in/dD2FqSwH

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A software engineer with 13+ years of experience who thrives on change and experimentation. After a period of exploring new paths as a freelancer, he now channels his curiosity and energy into his work at CodeCrafters, fully embracing the dynamic nature of building software. For him, the most vital part of the development process is the readiness to refactor and adapt. He sees software not as a static product, but as an ongoing conversation that requires teamwork, open communication, and a shared understanding. This belief is what fuels his passion for collaborative practices that bring people together to solve problems more effectively. As a skeptical optimist, he is exploring AI's role in augmenting a developer's workflow. He sees it not as a magic bullet, but as a powerful lever to handle routine tasks, allowing teams to focus on the more human-centric challenges of design, architecture, and understanding the business domain. His work is informed by a wide curiosity, from neuroscience to philosophy. Adrian Dieter Bilescu

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Why is Portugal the perfect place to develop soothing puzzle games? 🧩 Join Infinity Games' Marketing Lead, André Miraldo, as he chats with PocketGamer.biz about the company's approach to game design and shares the studio’s experiences developing titles within Portugal's burgeoning and highly supportive games industry. Enjoy the brand new interview: https://lnkd.in/eXM2cDHm

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💻 Why do we need configuration files? 💻 How does Toria's system work? To lurk behind the scenes of a programmer site of the project, read the article where we talk with Patryk Talaga, our Unity Developer: https://lnkd.in/dZybyqTW #toria #toriarpg #pocketplaystudio

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🧭 The Developer's Conference Florianópolis 2025 kicked off with an inspiring opening by Bruno Souza and it already started with excellent advice for every stage of your tech career: 🔹 Junior Professionals: “Make the most of TDC by building things, experimenting, joining workshops, and growing your technical skills.” 🔹 Mid-Level: “Use TDC to learn about things you don’t know yet or have never heard of. Broaden your horizons.” 🔹 Senior: “Your role is to share knowledge. You should be speaking here and seeking more autonomy.” 🔹 Post-Senior: “Now it’s about building reputation. TDC offers a mentorship hub to support you on that journey.” #TDC2025 #BrunoSouza #CareerGrowth #TechCommunity #LearningJourney #Mentorship #SharingKnowledge #Technology #Developers

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Another arcade game project that is currently in development, where all animations are based on sines and cosines, is DeadRunner. A special effect that I really like is the background rotation with a delay. An example of this is the scythe in the menu: for (var icss = 0; icss < 4; icss++) { draw_sprite_ext(sp_cosa1, 1, xx_cosa1, yy_cosa1, 1.2, 1.2, 38 - real(tan(current_time / 700) * (7 + 0.4 * icss)) + 9, make_color_rgb(10 + 10 * icss, 0, 0), global.alpha_game); } draw_sprite_ext(sp_cosa1, 1, xx_cosa1, yy_cosa1, 1.2, 1.2, 38 - real(tan(current_time / 700) * 8) + 9, c_white, global.alpha_game); What happens in this example is that on the foreground, the scythe rotates with acceleration and a smooth delay of ~16 degrees, after which it completes a full circle to 360-(38+16) and keeps going around. However, with the same tempo but a smaller degree, the shadow of the scythe behind the main artwork moves as well. This creates a pretty striking shadow effect from the scythe. #gamedev #math #gml

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MindsEye developers are working on fixes after the game's disastrous release. "We understand that the requirements are high and have limited the experience for many of you, and for this, we sincerely apologize": https://lnkd.in/dcEf8gnB Image by Odd_Revolution_1056 #MindsEye #games #gamenews #videogames

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I refactored the Python compiler (CPython) to accept keywords in Portuguese and English, using only vibe coding. This is mind-blowing: https://lnkd.in/d3qFPQ9d >PCbuild\build.bat -p x64 -c Release --regen >PCbuild\build.bat -p x64 -c Release >PCbuild\amd64\python.exe examples\pt_bilingue.py obs: "print" is a built-in function, not a keyword.

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Unity developers don’t just code, they create worlds and work on some of the most exciting projects in gaming. Looking for a Unity dev but not sure where to start? Our modern guide shows you how to find, hire, and work with top Unity talent, avoid costly mistakes, and set your new hire up for success from day one. Discover the step-by-step roadmap here 👇👇 https://lnkd.in/dXZucxMH Have questions or thoughts? Drop them in the comments below.

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Hello everyone! 👋 We are a new player in the tech industry, and we’re excited to introduce what we offer to help developers accelerate their production pipelines. We mainly work with professionals using Unity Engine, a platform in which we have strong expertise. If you need custom tools for your production pipeline, we’re here to design them as quickly as possible. If you need expert advice on project optimization, we’re here to help. If you need to set up a solid technical architecture, we’re here for that too. In addition to our services, we’re also developing proprietary tools to help you enhance and speed up your game development projects.

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A while ago, I wanted to better understand how a video streaming player works. So, I wrote a series of 5 articles (in Portuguese) explaining each step of the project in detail. Now, you can find the entire series in one place! 🚀 📚 Read the articles: 1️⃣ Part 1: https://lnkd.in/dFd6GY94 2️⃣ Part 2: https://lnkd.in/d5kZpCvt 3️⃣ Part 3: https://lnkd.in/dCQBFYyF 4️⃣ Part 4: https://lnkd.in/dq6w8dtv 5️⃣ Part 5: https://lnkd.in/dZH---xT 💻 Full source code is on GitHub for anyone who wants to explore it: 👉 https://lnkd.in/dJkn3Dqi #streaming #hls #javascript #softwaredevelopment #sharingknowledge

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🚨 Project Reveal - Table for Two 🚨 After months of design and development, I’m proud to share highlights from the final presentation of my first-year Game Development project: Table for Two - a single-player time-management game developed solo in Unity (C#). 🎥 The video (in Portuguese) includes parts of my presentation, with the game trailer at minute 6:24. 🕹️ About the Game: From a fast-paced kitchen to a harvestable garden, each level presents unique challenges and systems. Key features include: • Custom recipe delivery & fail logic • Level progression based on player performance • Harvesting mechanics with popup counters • Modular UI and animated timers • Scene transitions with loading screens • Countdown logic with spawn and state control 👩‍💻 My Role: I handled everything - gameplay programming, systems design, UI/UX, and debugging - creating a full experience from the ground up. 🚀 I’m now open to remote or freelance roles in Unity development, gameplay programming, or game design. 📬 Let’s connect: GitHub: https://lnkd.in/dpVtD7PX Portfolio & socials in my bio. #GameDev #UnityDev #CSharp #GameDesign #MadeWithUnity #GameplayProgramming #JuniorGameDev #OpenToWork #RemoteJobs #FreelanceGameDev #IndieDev #StudentGameDev #GameDevPortfolio

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Award-winning slots developer AvatarUX Studios has received an official approval from Brazil’s Secretaria de Prêmios e Apostas (SPA) — granting the company a Brazilian gaming licence and unlocking one of the most exciting new regulated markets in the industry. Known for its innovative game mechanics like PopWins™, ZapReel™, and Wild Reel, AvatarUX can now bring its cutting-edge portfolio to licensed operators across Brazil. This marks another key step in the company’s global expansion, following recent success in Romania. Full article in the comments.

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These last two weeks I had the chance to give two talks, at the GameBreak in Lisbon and the Game Dev Meet in Porto. I always enjoy going to these sorts of events since they're a great way to meet new people and connect with the Portuguese fame development industry. The Game Dev Meets in Porto in particular are close to me, as I had a role in helping organise them a few years ago. So it's nice to be able to sort of give back to the community again a bit, this time by sharing my experience doing AI for games. My talk - 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗔𝗜 𝗙𝘂𝗻, 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁 - centered on some of the design principles and tricks we often use in the industry to make our AI, not necessarily complex or competent, but fair and fun for the player. Some takeaways from it are: • Smart and realistic does not always mean fun when it comes to game AI. • There are a lot of tricks you can use to make your AI more fair to the player, like: ticketing systems, nudging enemies to position themselves in front of the player, making enemies miss intentionally, etc. • Make your AI show the player its internal state, for example by having it tell the player directly what it's doing. • When planning your AI, consider what emotions you want to transmit to the player first, and then design your behaviors. This is just a very summarized version, but hopefully useful. I also have another talk on applications and types of AI in game development, so hopefully sometime in the future I can participate again. Thanks to Game Dev Lisbon and the Nucleus of Computer Graphics and Multimedia for organising these events!

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Earlier in the year myself and Filipe Tomé created Eidolon as a playable prototype, due to time constraints many features were left unfinished and it wasn't really ready for distribution. Making use of Horror Engine (HE) Free edition, the demo had many limitations, we've since upgraded to Horror Engine SE, which brought a whole loads of issues 😅. The use of Metahumans in Unreal Engine 5.5 was extremely helpful for performance optimisations! However, HE 5.5 would instantly crash on Mac OS, so there was a need to remake the project in 5.4 . We made use of Rokoko suits for a special animation with our metahuman character, polishing it inside UE. For a period of a month I've been remaking the game from the ground up Using HE SE in Unreal 5.4, having the game fully playable in MacOS and Windows! The demo is available here https://lnkd.in/d_EYxTaZ . For this release I've incorporated many quality of life improvements such as: - Partial Gamepad support (for the majority of gameplay moments, UI not included); -Graphics settings; -Gameplay settings; -Input Rebinding (Gamepad and Mouse & Keyboard); -Credits page; -Dynamic Main Menu; -Performance Optimisations; -MacOS version (UE 5.4) & Windows version (UE 5.5) with features parity; -Important usability features: -Use HUD for all the interactable objects; -In game notices to better guide players; -Improved items descriptions; And many more things I can't remember for the top of my head 😅 . Lastly I would also to thanks everyone involved! The use of live actions sequences required the help of our incrible colleagues from eGames Lab, as well as the tools provided to bring such project to life 🙏 . The demo scope might look very small, but I've done a lot of work to make sure everything HE would fit our needs 😁 .

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DevGAMM 2025 in Lisbon. A conference that brings together professionals from across game development. Our team spent two intense days discussing the challenges and pain points faced by game audio designers—problems that modern technologies should be solving. One of the main challenges in the industry is searching and managing huge sound libraries. Our AI-based search engine https://aishatec.com/ already solves this problem. AiSHA - Made by Audio Artists for Audio Artists We are sincerely grateful for the insights from the leaders of the gaming industry: Olesia Prymakina Epic Games, João Pedro Costa Fortis Games, Julia Palatovska 🔜 The Game Awards, Raphaël Joffres Sandfall Interactive, André Sousa GIANTS Software, Ressa Schwarzwald Gameowdio, Aleksandr Vasiliev Room 8

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I've found that the Superpowers framework (https://lnkd.in/dMd5sHz9) is very effective when working with coding agents. I think most engineers working with coding agents realise how important the planning phase is. However, I've never been *completely* convinced by the native planning mode that you get with tools like Claude Code or Cursor. Over the last couple of weeks, however, I've gotten pretty consistent planning documents from Claude via the Superpowers plugin. I also like how each plan is broken down into two separate documents: one for design, and one for implementation. The actual implementation is then carried out via a new subagent per task, with additonal spec compliance and code quality reviews in between. This does obviously result in higher token usage, but I've found that the results are generally consistent (and I don't have to constantly keep going back and forth). Definitely worth taking a look at!

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